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  • 2009Q3 Grant Proposal: Creating a ctypes-Like Interface for Perl to External Subroutines Mon, 10-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Shlomi Fish Email: Amount Requested: $1500. Synopsis Develop a powerful Foreign Function Interface for Perl 5, similar to Python's ctypes. Benefits to the Perl Community ctypes provides a very handy way to call hard-coded subroutines in shared libraries, but only for Python. Having a similar module for Perl will benefit Perl 5 programmers who will be able to call subroutines in C and similar compiled languages from their Perl

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XIV) Sat, 01-Aug-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Dear all, I am sorry to inform that I am busy with YAPC::EU::2009 organization. This means that this time we will not have grants updates, and that grants evaluation for this quarter will start later two weeks. #grants

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  • YAPC::EU 2009 Starts Next Week! Fri, 31-Jul-2009 by Josh McAdams

    Conference season is in full swing and the next event that you might be interested in is "YAPC::EU 2009":http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/. This year's conference is going to be in Lisbon, Portugal and will be loaded with days of Perl programming talks and events. The theme this year is 'Corporate Perl'. Some featured presentations include Larry Wall's opening keynote, "Damian Conway's 'The Missing Link'":http://yapceurope2009.org/ye2009/talk/2088, and José Castro's closing keynote. You can check out

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  • CPAN Ticker Wed, 22-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    We've all seen various tickers like this "deficit tracker":http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/ticker_home.asp which track negative things to raise awareness. How hard would it be to create a CPAN ticker? Something like ticker.cpan.org to show distributions, etc. as they increase. Then maybe specific ones like ticker.cpan.org/Moose to watch distributions?

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  • Proposed Payments for Clearing Perl 5 Bugs Sun, 19-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    A few months ago, Nicholas Clark posted "an interesting plan":http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/05/msg146785.html to spend some of TPF's money. In fact, it's so interesting, we're going to try to take him up on it. At "YAPC::NA 2009":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/ this year, I sat down with Mark Keating, acting on behalf of the "Enlightened Perl":http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ group, and we agreed to work on something like this: Mark and company will build a web app to manage the

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XIII) Sat, 18-Jul-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates from Ingy. h3. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi No updates from Grant Manager. h3. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern No updates from Schwern. h3. "Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince":http://www.perlfoundation.org/vadim_konovalov_perl_cross_compilation_for_linux_and_wince Vadim Konovalov No updates from Vadim. If you know Vadim, please poke him. We need to know what is happening with him. h3.

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  • TPF Board Changes Mon, 13-Jul-2009 by Jim Brandt

    There's been a bit of activity on the TPF Board over the past few weeks, so here's a summary of the current membership: Chairman: Nat Torkington has replaced Bill Odom as chairman. President: The TPF board has approved the "revised grant proposal":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/continued_review_of_tpf_grant.html from Richard Dice to do TPF infrastructure work and a condition of the approval is that he not be a sitting member of the board while working on

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XII) Sat, 04-Jul-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates, this time. h3. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan Haggai has been improving the new named argument features and adding lots of automated tests. A new release of Archive::Zip, with many of his improvements, is now available on the CPAN. Currently he is updating the POD to reflect the changes. Next he will

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  • 2009Q3 Call for Grants Proposals Sat, 04-Jul-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August/September 2009. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru.

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  • YAPC::NA 2010 in Columbus Wed, 24-Jun-2009 by Josh McAdams

    We are excited to announce that "Columbus, Ohio Perl Mongers":http://columbus.pm.org/ will be the hosts of "YAPC::NA 2010":http://yapc2010.com/. They came in a very close second in last year's bidding and came back this year with an excellent proposal that sets the stage for a great YAPC::NA 2010 in Columbus. Congratulations Columbus!

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  • Running Grants (2009 - X) Tue, 23-Jun-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Dear all, thanks for the grant managers who sent me updates, but I had some problems with my laptop and things were not easy. Hope to get back on track in 15 days.

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  • Running Grants (2009 - XI) Sun, 07-Jun-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates, in fact, updates IX, X and XI, as we had a small stop. h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: I'm a bit behind on finishing YAML::Perl. This is due mostly to a focus on TestML. So far I have the spec: http://ingydotnet.github.com/testml/spec/ and a Perl 5 implementation: http://github.com/ingydotnet/testml-pm/ These are undergoing last minute changes. _The reason I'm doing this and telling you about it,

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Results Fri, 22-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    After grant proposals comment by the community and vote taking place in the Grant Committee, these are the results. Rejected proposals: "Project nival ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project.html "Project ruddy ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project_1.html "Perl 6 Pages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_perl_6_p.html Funded proposal: "Pod Mangling Utility Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_pod_mang.html

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  • Approval of latest Hague Perl 6 Grant, "Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo" Fri, 22-May-2009 by Richard Dice

    It is with great pleasure to announce the approval of the latest "Ian Hague grant for Perl 6 development":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants, entitled "'Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo.'":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_request_tra.html This grant goes to "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/, who has already "successfully finished":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/hague_perl_6_grant_for_jonatha.html one Hague grant. The grant manager for this grant will be "Patrick Michaud":http://www.pmichaud.com/, the lead architect of "Rakudo Perl 6":http://www.rakudo.org/, the "Perl 6":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi implementation effort on top of the "Parrot virtual

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  • Continued Review of TPF Grant for Richard Dice on TPF and Perl community work Wed, 20-May-2009 by Richard Dice

    The TPF board of directors wants to provide a progress update on discussion regarding providing support to Richard Dice to work on TPF and Perl community issues. The original public announcement and request-for-comment is "found here.":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/04/request_for_comment_tpf_to_eng.html The new version of this proposal is available here It has been revised considerably based on community comment and discussion within TPF. Highlights of the changes between the original version and the current one

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  • YAPC::NA 2010 Call for Venue Wed, 13-May-2009 by Jeremy Fluhmann

    It's that time again! Welcome to another Yet Another Perl Conference, North America Call for Venue. Do you want to bring hundreds of Perl geeks to your city? If so, then please consider submitting your bid for YAPC::NA 2010. Similar to last year, the deadline for submissions is June 10 and the winning bid will be announced at "this year's conference in Pittsburgh":http://yapc10.org/. How do you get started? Please review

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  • Making the most of our conference presence Sun, 10-May-2009 by Josh McAdams

    The Perl Foundation will have a booth at OSCON again this year. The booth always serves as a great meeting place for those of us in the Perl community, but beyond that, it tends to be a little confused as to its purpose. We know that we want to show other OSCON attendees that the Perl community is an active community that is on the cutting edge of technology. We

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposals Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    That time of the month is back. This quarter we had two new grant proposals, and two grant proposals that were maintained from last round. We expect the community to comment on these grants accordingly with their relevance. Please comment on each grant proposal post: "Perl 6 Pages":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_perl_6_p.html "Pod Mangling Utility Improvements":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_pod_mang.html "Project nival ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project.html "Project ruddy ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2009/05/2009q2_grant_proposal_project_1.html

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Project ruddy (web nttp/rss reader and email system) Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Project ruddy Name: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls. Amount Requested: Front end 1000 Back end 1000 Total 2000 Synopsis The name ruddy comes from a kind of dove. Ruddy is intended to be version 0 of a nntp/rss reader an a web based email system. Benefits to the Perl Community It will be an extensible web mail system written with perl and jquery,

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Project nival (CMS) Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Project nival Name: Igor Sanchez-Puls and Rene Sanchez-Puls. Amount Requested: Front end 1000 Back end 1000 Total 2000 Synopsis The name nival comes from a kind of owl. Nival is intended to be version 0 of a Content Management System Benefits to the Perl Community It will be an extensible CMS written with perl and jquery, allowing to build sites in an

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Pod Mangling Utility Improvements Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Pod Mangling Utility Improvements Name: Ricardo Signes Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis This grant is for the completion of design and implementation of basic versions of three pieces of software currently under development: Pod::Elemental Pod::Weaver Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver All three modules exist and have been in use by a number of people for some time. The main thrust of the grant is to improve the usability and reliability of Pod::Weaver. Pod::Weaver is

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  • 2009Q2 Grant Proposal: Perl 6 Pages Sun, 03-May-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Project Title: Perl 6 Pages Name: Herbert Breunung Email: Amount Requested: 600$ € Synopsis comprehensive lexicon-like tutorial Benefits to the Perl Community It will become easy to learn Perl6, because this way people can easily grab the bits they want to learn now about Perl 6. Once ready it may become also a communication channel with people not so involved into perl 6 Deliverables 8-10 larger Pages in the TPF

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  • Hague Perl 6 Grant request, "Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo", open for comment Tue, 28-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice

    Coming off the completion of his first Hague grant, Jonathan Worthington has submitted a request for a new Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant for his proposal "Traits, Introspection and More Dispatch Work For Rakudo". A part of the Hague grant process is that submitted grant requests may, as opted by the submitter, be provided for public and community comment. Jonathan's grant request is included here, below. Any interested Perl

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  • Hague Perl 6 Grant for Jonathan Worthington completed and accepted Tue, 28-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice

    In late November 2007 Jonathan Worthington submitted a "Hague Perl 6 Grant proposal":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants entitled "'Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements'":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html. I am pleased to announce that Jonathan submitted his final Hague grant report yesterday and it was approved and accepted by chromatic, the grant manager for the grant. This successfully completes this Hague Grant for Perl 6 development. We thank Jonathan for his great work on this grant and his efforts

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  • Interview with Richard Dice, TPF President, for $foo, the German language Perl magazine Sun, 26-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice

    Back a few months ago I was interviewed by Renée Bäcker, the publisher of "$foo, the German language Perl magazine":http://perl-magazin.de/. The issue with that interview is just about to be released. You can read the "English version of the interview":http://downloads.foo-magazin.de/InterviewRichardDice2.pdf online. Understandably the interview talks about TPF's perspective on Perl through 2008 and other news and happenings in Perl and TPF.

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  • Request for Comment: TPF to engage Richard Dice on 6 month contract for Perl community and TPF internal development work Sat, 25-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice

    Earlier this past week I submitted a proposal to the TPF Board of Directors; the PDF of this proposal is attached here. The plan includes a long list of projects, most of which have been discussed within TPF for a while but have been on indefinite hold due mainly to lack of available effort to address them properly. Some are for TPF process improvement and others are in more direct

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  • Google Announces Nine Students in GSoC2009 with The Perl Foundation Thu, 23-Apr-2009 by Richard Dice
  • Moose Documentation Grant Tue, 21-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Dave Rolsky finished writing the Moose Documentation. This grant started a few months ago, and Dave delivered it quickly. You can read Dave wrap-up on "his blog":http://blog.urth.org/2009/04/moose-docs-grant-wrap-up.html #grants

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  • Running Grants (2009 - VIII) Sun, 19-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: I just finished giving my YAML talk today at the NPW in Oslo. It was well received. Later the slides will be up at http://ingydotnet.github.com/yaml-npw2009-talk/ This weekend is a hackathon. One of my big plans is to get PyYaml ported to Perl6 in Rakudo enough to parse Larry's syntax trees. YAML::Perl is all ported but just needs to:

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  • Nordic Perl Workshop Wed, 08-Apr-2009 by Karen Pauley

    The "Nordic Perl Workshop":http://www.perlworkshop.no/npw2009/ will be taking place this week on Thursday and Friday in Oslo, Norway. The theme for this year's conference is "Your Future with Perl". The focus will be on Perl 6, Rakudo, Parrot, and modern ways of using Perl 5. A three day Perl 6 and Enlightened Perl "Hackathon":http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?oslo_perl_6_hackaton_2009 will follow the workshop. If you are interested in finding out more about this, take a look

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  • 2009Q2 Call for Grant Proposals Mon, 06-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in May 2009. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru.

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  • Running Grants (2009-VII) Sat, 04-Apr-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: h3. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates this time. h3. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi No updates this time. h3. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith Grant closed due to grantee lack of feedback. h3. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern Michael update: _At the Birmingham QA Hackathon, between answering random questions and having random TAP discussions, my focus was on working on

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  • Google Summer of Code: Student Deadline Approaching Thu, 02-Apr-2009 by Karen Pauley
    in: GSoC

    There is still time to apply to take part in this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. Don't forget student applications must be "submitted":http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009 by April 3rd, 12 Noon, PDT.

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  • Running Grants (2009 - V) Sat, 21-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: YAML-Perl is progressing nicely. I just uploaded 0.02 to CPAN and github. http://tinyurl.com/co6h6h details the current status and basic todo list. Basically the porting is winding down and all the basic stuff is working properly. The Parser is completely ported. In fact, all the classes are completely ported except: Emitter 3 more methods; Resolver 5 more methods I could

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  • Google Summer of Code 2009 Thu, 19-Mar-2009 by Karen Pauley
    in: GSoC

    We are delighted to announce that TPF has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's "Google Summer of Code":http://code.google.com/soc/. We would like to thank everyone involved, especially "Jonathan Leto":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/ for all his hard work in coordinating this project. If you are a student, and would like more information on taking part, please read Jonathan's article on "applying for GSoC with The Perl Foundation":http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/applying-to-google-summer-of-c.html.

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  • YAPC|10 Mon, 16-Mar-2009 by Josh McAdams

    The dates and pricing for the "tenth annual YAPC::NA":http://yapc10.org/yn2009 have been announced. This year's conference will be held at at "Carnegie Mellon University":http://www.cmu.edu/ in Pittsburgh, PA on from June 22nd through June 24th. Registration is open with early bird pricing happening now. Also, "the call for papers":http://yapc10.org/yn2009/cfp.html is open through Friday, 24 April 2009. The Yet Another Perl Conference is a high-quality, inexpensive technical conference with its roots in the

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  • Padre and Parrot integration grant cancelled Sun, 15-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Gabor grant on integrating Padre and Parrot was cancelled. Gabor explains why in his blog Note that this does not mean that this integration will not be done, or that TPF will not fund it. It just means that at this point Gabor does not have the time to deliver the grant on time.

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  • Running Grants (2009-V) Sat, 07-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Grants updates: "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy update: YAML::Perl is really coming together. Over 95% of the code is ported. I only port code once I have a failing test written to exercise that code. Just need to figure out how to tickle the other 5%. I plan on putting a big push in this weekend to get a release candidate version of YAML::Perl onto CPAN. The

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  • Conference Season Thu, 05-Mar-2009 by Karen Pauley

    I used to think that there was a conference season and that it took place in the summer. Now in the Perl world we have so many grass-root events taking place that the whole year is our conference season. So far this year we have already had "Perl Oasis":http://perloasis.org/opw2009/ in Orlando, "Frozen Perl":http://www.frozen-perl.org/mpw2009/ in Minneapolis, the "Bulgarian Perl Workshop":http://event.perlbulgaria.org/sofia2009/, the "German Perl Workshop":http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009/index.html, and the "Belgian Perl Workshop":http://conferences.mongueurs.net/bpw2009/. Today the

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  • 2009Q1 Grants Results Mon, 02-Mar-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    These are the results for the first round of 2009 grants requests: Rejected Proposals: CPAN::Forum development Codewalker Interactive Perl Interpreter Awareness and Utilization of Perl in Nigeria: A Survey OPener Chat OPener Package Inline C++/CLI Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Funded proposals: Improving learn.perl.org, by Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Web.pm a lightweight web framework for Perl 6, by Ilya Belikin, Carl Mäsak and Stephen Weeks Still

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  • Running Grants (2009 - IV) Sun, 22-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Follows the fourth grants updates report. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net No updates. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan has finished adding support for archives with unicode filenames on Windows, and is now tackling the Perl side, making it possible to create archives with unicode filenames in them. "Extending BSDPAN":http://www.perlfoundation.org/colin_smith_extending_bsdpan Colin Smith No updates. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Michael G Schwern No updates. "Perl cross-compilation

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  • SMOP Grant Final Report Thu, 19-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Project: Simple Meta Object Programming Grantee: Daniel Ruoso Grant Manager Jeff Horwitz Started: August, 2008 Finished: February, 2009 Follows the conclusion report, by Daniel Ruoso. Ok, I'll try to summarize what happened in the last 7 months We're actually in a point where it's not worth writing any other types in C. The amount of abstractions already demands us to write the built-in types in Perl 6, and there is

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  • Running Grants (2009 - III) Sat, 07-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Follows the third grants updates report. This time at Saturday, as yesterday was Grants Proposals day. "Port PyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl Ingy döt Net Ingy moved recently for Europe. He expects to deliver news really soon. "SMOP":http://www.perlfoundation.org/smop_simple_meta_object_programming Daniel Ruoso No update. "Fixing Bugs in the Archive::Zip Perl Module":http://www.perlfoundation.org/fixing_bugs_in_the_archive_zip_perl_module Alan Haggai Alavi Alan added Unicode support under Windows to extractTree and addTree. Now, he is trying to get other methods to support

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposals Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Is that time again. The deadline for grant proposals submissions ended six days ago, and now they are available for comment during a week. Please use each proposal post to comment about that project. Please do not post with simple messages as "I like it", or "+1". If you like it, state why you do. That is what will help us voting, not just another person name associated to the

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Improving learn.perl.org Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Eric Wilhelm and Tina Connolly Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Revamp the learn.perl.org website to be more inviting to new users of Perl by creating a new series of articles which form a coherent and fun tutorial arc. Benefits to the Perl Community The learn.perl.org site should be a welcoming, fun, and educational experience for new users, complete with exciting projects and straightforward instructions to make it easier to

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Awareness and Utilization of Perl in Nigeria: A Survey Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Peter Odigie. Email: Where we can contact you! Amount Requested: How much is your project worth? $2500 Synopsis A short description. A survey to capture the awareness and use of perl by IT workers in the Nigerian public and private sector. Benefits to the Perl Community Why should the Perl Community grant this project? Nigeria is the biggest country in Africa with a lot of business opportunities. What happens

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Pod Mangling Utility Improvements Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Ricardo Signes Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis This grant is for the completion of design and implementation of basic versions of three pieces of software currently under development: Pod::Elemental Pod::Weaver Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodWeaver All three modules exist and have been in use by a number of people for some time. The main thrust of the grant is to improve the usability and reliability of Pod::Weaver. Pod::Weaver is one of the key

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Interactive Perl Interpreter Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Erik Osheim Email: Amount Requested: $1000 Synopsis This project aims to build an interactive interpreter for Perl. The goals of this project are to allow pasted Perl code to run line-by-line as it would be in a Perl script, provide tab completion and introspection at least equal to that provided by the Perl debugger, to provide documentation and packaging, and lastly a package to help with introspection. Benefits to

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: OPener Chat Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    dl> Name: Wang Lei Email: Amount Requested: 2000USD Synopsis Opener Chat is a kind of multi-user and multi-protocol online communication software which is like Pidgin Opener Chat is completely written in Perl which consists of the graphical interface part and net part. We use the module of win32::GUI to carry its interface into effect, so this software can only run on the win32 platform. This project has started a period

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: OPener Package Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Wang Lei Email: Amount Requested: 3000USD Synopsis Opener package is a kind of software for the development of Windows installers which purpose is to make easily issued installers. It is like NSIS, but the main goal of the Opener package is to make installers which program in Perl. Opener package need to use Par to carry into effect. We use Par to package the executed files. We have already

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Web.pm - a lightweight web framework for Perl 6 Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Names: Ilya Belikin, Carl Mäsak, Stephen Weeks Email: Ilya Belikin Carl Mäsak Stephen Weeks Amount Requested: $3000. Ilya: 1320$, for 12h/week. Carl: 1100$, for 10h/week. Stephen: 550$, for 5h/week. Synopsis Two years ago, Juerd proposed the Web.pm module for Perl 6. Meant to functionally replace Perl 5's CGI.pm, it is a revamping of the fundamentals in order to better serve today's web development needs. Apart from implementing a working web

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Perl 6 Pages Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Herbert Breunung Email: Amount Requested: 600$ € Synopsis comprehensive lexicon-like tutorial Benefits to the Perl Community It will become easy to learn Perl6, because this way people can easily grab the bits they want to learn now about Perl 6. Once ready it may become also a communication channel with people not so involved into perl 6 Deliverables 8-10 larger Pages in the TPF perl 6 Wiki. See german

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Codewalker Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Hugh Barnard Email: Amount Requested: $2000 Synopsis Project takes code and walks the call tree producing graphviz diagrams It's a parsing and documentation project Benefits to the Perl Community It helps refresh and refactor legacy Perl code and provides clear documentation for larger Perl projects. It lessens of the perceived disadvantages of Perl, readability. Deliverables The code exists and works but my intention is to rewrite a first version

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: CPAN::Forum development Fri, 06-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 3000 Synopsis Lots of general improvements of CPAN::Forum. Benefits to the Perl Community CPAN::Forum has been around for several years now and it is linked from both major search engines but it is under utilized. Improving its interface will make it easier for users to ask questions regarding specific modules. The whole idea of CPAN::Forum was to provide an alternative to setting up

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Thu, 05-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Gabor Szabo Email: Amount Requested: USD 1500 Synopsis Integrating the perl built-in debugger into Padre, the Perl IDE using Debug::Client a stand alone client to the perl debugger. Benefits to the Perl Community Padre already has many features required for a text editor. Adding the debugging capabilities will allow any perl programmer to use the power of the built in debugger without the fear of the command line or

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  • 2009Q1 Grant Proposal: Inline C++/CLI Thu, 05-Feb-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: John R. Hogerhuis Email: Amount Requested: $3000 Synopsis Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Benefits to the Perl Community The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to continue to use its favorite tool to solve problems on the Windows platform without giving up

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  • Running Grants (2009 - II) Wed, 14-Jan-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Prepare for a big post! Here are the most recent updates from TPF running grants. "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl No updates this time. "Test::Builder 2":http://www.perlfoundation.org/test_builder_2 Schwern update: TB2 development has been dead for the last few months, largely because I haven't been programming. I'm getting started again, I've been poking at the code again lately, and I'm making three changes to the way its developed. _1> Reigning in the TB2

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  • 2009Q1 Call for Grants Proposals Wed, 07-Jan-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2009. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Strawberry Perl and Perl on a Stick, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru.

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  • Running Grants (2009 - I) Fri, 02-Jan-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    This is the first update for running grants on 2009. At the moment TPF has 12 running grants: "Port pyYAML to Perl":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ingy_dot_net_port_pyyaml_to_perl I just uploaded YAML-Perl-01_01. It has the entire Loader stack represented. You can play with it by using: ysh -MYAML::Perl It will load many simple YAML documents all the way through, but is not yet complete, so many others will fail. There are 10 modules involved in the

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  • Perl on a Stick - Grant Complete Fri, 02-Jan-2009 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Adam Kennedy finished his Perl on a Stick grant a few weeks ago. You can download the first beta release in Strawberry Perl website Also, while TPF expects Adam to publish a final report sometime, he wrote some posts on his use.perl blog about this grant. Here is a brief resume of them: Strawberry Perl October 2008 Released! I can't submit my grant report yet because of The Sekrit! Microsoft

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  • New Grant Manager Fri, 26-Dec-2008 by Alberto Simões

    I posted recently on use.perl asking for new Grant Managers for The Perl Foundation. We got some candidates Nuno Carvalho Renée Bäecker Scott "KONOBI" McWhirter Andrew Shitov Steve Peters Robin Berjon Makoto Nozaki David Nicol Unfortunately I did not receive all these names before starting the voting process. Nevertheless, they will be on my backup list for whenever The Perl Foundation needs new grant managers. From the list the Grant

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  • Perl 5 Development Now on Git Thu, 25-Dec-2008 by Josh McAdams

    Perl 5's revision history is now "stored in a git repository":http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git accessible to any developer around the world! Since March 1997 Perl 5 development has been done using a "Perforce":http://www.perforce.com revision control system generously hosted by "ActiveState":http://www.activestate.com. This system provided a powerful tool set for core developers, but tended to keep outside contributors at arms length. Now there is "a git repository available to anyone":http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git. The repository is hosted on

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  • Booking.com Makes a Major Contribution to TPF Thu, 25-Dec-2008 by Josh McAdams

    We are happy to announce that "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com has donated $50,000 to The Perl Foundation to aid in the further development and maintenance of the Perl programming language in general, and Perl 5.10 in particular. "Booking.com":http://www.booking.com is also donating hardware and sysadmin time to provide the servers for "the new git master for Perl 5":http://use.perl.org/articles/08/12/22/0830205.shtml. Booking.com is Europe's largest and fastest growing online hotel reservation service. It is based in Amsterdam,

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  • Running Grants (2008-X) Mon, 15-Dec-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications No updates. Vadim Konovalov Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo Vadim update: Today I've sent a patch to the parrot development list, which is the first portion of work, and I hope to do the remaining work on the grant within current week, including within 20th and 21th december, so I am planning to finish it before December, 22.

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  • Jonathan Worthington's Hague Grant, "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements", accepted Wed, 10-Dec-2008 by Richard Dice

    On November 20, 2008, "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/ submitted an "Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants request entitled "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements.":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/hague_grant_request_rakudo_dis.html Public comments regarding this grant request were extremely positive. These, in addition to consultation with "Jesse Vincent":http://bestpractical.com/about/us.html and "Patrick Michaud":http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Pm/AboutPm allow The Perl Foundation to enthusiastically accept this grant request. "chromatic":http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/ has agreed to volunteer as the grant manager for this grant, and TPF gladly accepts his help with

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  • 2008Q4 Grants Results Mon, 08-Dec-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Sorry for taking so much time to publish results. TPF have been funding a lot of grants in the last quarters. During this year, TPF invested more than $25.000 in grants, directly related to the standard grant program. Unfortunately donations to TPF are not compensating the invested amount. Thus, this grant TPF can't afford to fund more than two grants Moose Documentation a proposal by Dave Rolsky The Mojo Documentation

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  • Running Grants (2008 - IX) Mon, 01-Dec-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    We know that results are expected for the fourth quarter call for grant proposals. We expect to publish results really soon. Regarding running grants, follow some updates: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN For the past few days Colin have been reacquainting himself with the BSDPAN code and sketching out a couple different approaches. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: I've been adding unit tests on scalar references and

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  • SMOP Grant special update Tue, 25-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Daniel Ruoso's Grant Manager just forwarded a big update on SMOP. To keep people up-to-date on current developments I am publishing it off schedule. Please refer to the extended version of this post for details. We are already a month off-scedule But I'm pretty happy anyway, and I'm pretty confident that this delay is worth the trouble, considering the interesting amount of progress we're having So, to the update: We're

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  • Running Grants (2008-VIII) Fri, 21-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Colin should start working later in the Winter. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: I've added unit tests fixed a few bugs and added a two useful methods that I found missing while doing so. Made some changes to the exporting code, making it easier to export with a slurping argument.

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  • Hague Grant request, "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancements", open for community comments Thu, 20-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    "Jonathan Worthington":http://www.jnthn.net/ has submitted a request for an "Ian Hague Perl 6 development grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for his proposal "Rakudo Dispatch and Role Enhancement". A part of the Hague grant process is that submitted grant requests may, as opted by the submitter, be provided for public and community comment. Jonathan's grant request is included here, below. Any interested Perl community members may provide their comments regarding this grant request here. Name: Jonathan

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  • Parrot Grant Update for September and October, 2008 Wed, 12-Nov-2008 by Dave Rolsky
    in: Grants

    Now that the Parrot Foundation has "their own webste":http://www.parrot.org, I will be posting all grant updates to that site. You can see the "latest update":http://www.parrot.org/news/nlnet-grant-update-september-and-october-2008 there right now. In the future, all updates will be posted solely to parrot.org. I've also moved "the page that describes the grant structure":http://www.parrot.org/foundation/grants/nlnet-grant to parrot.org.

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  • TPF announces grant to David Mitchell for the release of Perl 5.10.1 Tue, 11-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    It is with considerable pleasure that TPF announces today a Perl development grant to David Mitchell for the release of Perl 5.10.1. David's work through this grant will be: The vetting and application of 400+ outstanding patches to the Perl 5.10 codebase; A rework of the "smart match" feature semantics to address known issues; Packaging of a Perl 5.10.1 release distribution. The funding amount of this grant is USD $5000,

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  • Wrap-up Report on Patrick Michaud's Mozilla Foundation / Perl Foundation Perl 6 development grant Mon, 10-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    Recently, Patrick Michaud, head of the "'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation":http://rakudo.org/ effort on top of the "Parrot VM":http://www.parrot.org/, was awarded the first "Hague grant for Perl 6 development":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. This grant is effectively a follow-up and extension to his highly successful "Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation grant for Perl 6 development ":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/11/patrick_michaud_awarded_perl_6.htmlthat was awarded in November 2007. Patrick wrote an "excellent summary":http://use.perl.org/%7Epmichaud/journal/37403 of the grant and what it achieved at his "use.perl.org":http://use.perl.org/ journal.

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  • TPF awards Hague Grant to Jerry Gay, core 'Rakudo' Perl 6 team member, regarding S19 command line Sun, 09-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the second "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Jerry Gay, core Parrot hacker and 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation hacker. The details of Jerry's grant proposal are below. The work will be to define the S19 synopsis pertaining to command-line interaction with Perl 6, and to provide a Rakudo implementation of the synopsis. Jesse Vincent, the project manager of the Perl 6 effort,

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  • TPF awards first Hague Grant to Patrick Michaud, head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort Sun, 09-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the first "Hague Grant":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants. It is being awarded to Patrick Michaud, the head of the 'Rakudo' Perl 6 implementation effort on top of the Parrot VM. Conceptually it is an extension of Patrick's earlier Mozilla Foundation Perl Foundation Perl 6 development grant that he worked on between late 2007 and mid 2008. The details of Patrick's grant proposal are below. Jesse Vincent, the

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  • Announcement of the Ian Hague Perl 6 development grants Sat, 08-Nov-2008 by Richard Dice

    In May 2008, "Ian Hague provided The Perl Foundation with a huge donation for the sake of supporting Perl 6 development":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/tpf_receives_large_donation_in.html. In the past few months, and in consultation with Perl community members at YAPC::NA 2008, TPF has developed a Hague grant process for Perl 6 grants. Please visit "www.perlfoundation.org":http://www.perlfoundation.org/ian_hague_perl_6_development_grants for more details regarding the Hague grants.

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  • Running Grants (2008-VII) Mon, 03-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Colin should start working later in the Winter. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon update: so far I've been busy with extending my TAP producer and adding unit tests. I've made it more compatible with Boost Lambda, allowing for example this: Array big numbers.grep big.each int sum big.reduce I'm currently busy with

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposals Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    During this fourth quarter TPF received the following grant proposals: "CPAN::Forum development":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_cpanforu.html "Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_integrat.html "Perl debugger integration in Padre":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_perl_deb.html "Inline C++/CLI":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_inline_c.html "Moose Docs":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_moose_do.html "Perl Hotel":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_perl_hot.html "single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and Linux":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_singlefi.html "Squatting On Everything":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_squattin.html "The Perl Survey":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_the_perl.html "The Mojo Documentation Project":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/11/2008q4_grant_proposal_the_mojo.html Please be free to comment each entry with your doubts about the proposal as well as with comments about its relevance. TPF GC will

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: CPAN::Forum development Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: CPAN::Forum development Synopsis: Lots of general improvements of CPAN::Forum. Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: CPAN::Forum development Synopsis: Lots of general improvements of CPAN::Forum. Benefits to the Perl Community: CPAN::Forum has been around for several years now and it is linked from both major search engines but it is under utilized. Improving its interface will make it easier for users to ask questions regarding specific modules.

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo Synopsis: Embedding Parrot to be used by Padre for syntax highlighting Perl 6 or any other language defined over Parrot or Perl 6. Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Integrating Padre with Parrot and Rakudo Synopsis: Embedding Parrot to be used by Padre for syntax highlighting Perl 6 or any other language defined over Parrot or Perl 6. **Benefits to

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Perl debugger integration in Padre Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Synopsis: Integrating the perl built-in debugger into Padre, the Perl IDE using Debug::Client a stand alone client to the perl debugger. Name: Gabor Szabo Project Title: Perl debugger integration in Padre, the Perl IDE Synopsis: Integrating the perl built-in debugger into Padre, the Perl IDE using Debug::Client a stand alone client to the perl debugger. **Benefits to

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Inline C++/CLI Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: John R. Hogerhuis Project Title: Inline C++/CLI Synopsis: Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Name John R. Hogerhuis Project Title Inline C++/CLI Synopsis Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++/CLI Benefits to the Perl Community The benefit of this project is that it opens up access to .Net APIs to Perl programmers. This prevents Perl from being marginalized on the Windows platform. It allows the Perl community to

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Moose Docs Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Author: Dave Rolsky Title: Moose Documentation Improvements Synopsis: This project will improve various aspects of the Moose documentation. The primary goal is to make Moose easier to understand for newcomers. The secondary goal is for Moose and Class::MOP to provide 100% complete API documentation for spelunkers. Author Dave Rolsky Title Moose Documentation Improvements Synopsis This project will improve various aspects of the Moose documentation. The primary goal is to make

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Perl Hotel Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Cristina Nunes Project Title: Hotel Perl Synopsis: A website where Perl mongers can: register and submit their vacant space to receive other Perl mongers traveling, search for a place to stay at another Perl monger's, announce they're looking for a place to stay at a given city/country Benefits to the Perl Community Better interaction between Perl mongers. Cut expenses when attending Perl events like conferences, workshops and/or social/technical monger

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and Linux Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Vadim Konovalov Project Title: single-file GUI-enabled executable for Windows and then for Linux w/o temporaries and dependencies Synopsis: Proposal is to make a distribution of Perl program with a single-file executable much like PAR approach but without any temporaries, thus having existing filesystem untouched in any way. This executable will include Tcl/Tk into it and all Perl and Tcl/Tk core scripts will be inside this executable and will be

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: Squatting On Everything Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: John Beppu Project Title: Squatting On Everything Synopsis: Squatting is unique among web frameworks, because it has the ability to embed itself into other frameworks. This ability has been demonstrated with the Squatting::On::Catalyst module that shows that you can take a whole Squatting application and embed it directly into a Catalyst application. I'd like to expand Squatting's range by writing adapters for more frameworks and environments. Name John Beppu

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: The Perl Survey Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Kieren Diment Project Title: The Perl Survey From "Pilot" to Production Synopsis: In 2007 Kirrily Robert organised and administered the Perl survey to provide a snapshot of the Perl community. In particular she made significant effort to recruit as many people as possible, resulting in a sample size of around 4500 responses. While an excellent start for a design for a survey instrument, it can be improved in a

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  • 2008Q4 Grant Proposal: The Mojo Documentation Project Sun, 02-Nov-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Name: Sebastian Riedel Project Title: The Mojo Documentation Project Synopsis: During the last few months i've done some self funded work on a next generation web framework named Mojo. It is now quite close to a public release and needs documentation. Name Sebastian Riedel Project Title The Mojo Documentation Project Synopsis During the last few months i've done some self funded work on a next generation web framework named Mojo.

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  • Frozen Perl 2009 is Coming Fri, 31-Oct-2008 by Dave Rolsky

    The Minneapolis Perl Mongers are organizing Frozen Perl 2009, a one-day Perl workshop in Minneapolis on Saturday, February 07, 2009. We will have a hackathon on the Sunday after, and brian d foy of Stonehenge Consulting will be teaching a Perl class on the Friday before. You can learn more about all of these events at "the Frozen Perl website":http://www.frozen-perl.org. Registration for the workshop is now open, and the early

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  • y2038 Grant Delivered. Wed, 22-Oct-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Michael Schwern just finished the y2038 grant. Follows a small report. The y2038 grant has shipped all its deliverables. You can read the full break down here: http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/37688 In short... There is now a patch for bleadperl to universally solve the year 2038 problem. Its integration is delayed until 5.8.9 is released. There's nothing stopping it from going into 5.10.x and 5.8.x, that's up to the pumpkings, but it is

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  • Running Grants (2008-VI) Sat, 18-Oct-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN Grantee is without time for grant. Things are begin discussed to decide what to do. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications No updates since last update. Vadim Konovalov Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo No updates from Grant Manager. Andrew Shitov Barcode support in Act No updates from Grant Manger. Vadim Konovalov Perl cross-compilation for

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  • Running Grants (2008-V) Fri, 03-Oct-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from grantee. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've been mostly busy with implementing a TAP producer to build my tests with, and with implementing tests. So far I've been mainly implementing tests for sanity and numeric behavior. On the way there I fixed a few bugs, and added

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  • 2008Q4 Call for Grants Proposals Wed, 01-Oct-2008 by Alberto Simões

    The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in November 2008. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI and Strawberry Perl, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others http://www.perlfoundation.org/grants for more references>. You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or

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  • Grant Update: y2038 fix Tue, 23-Sep-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    From a mail on Perl 5 Porters: Attached is the latest 2038 patch from the y2038 branch. Configure now probes for the safe range of the system's localtime and gmtime Perl will use the system functions inside their safe range. Perl now ships with its own 64 bit gmtime and timegm localtime is made 2038 safe on 32 bit systems using the algorithm described here http://code.google.com/p/y2038/wiki/HowItWorks Time::Local can now handle

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  • Running Grants (2008 - IV) Fri, 19-Sep-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    At the moment, these are the latest updates on the running grants: Colin Smith Extending BSDPAN No updates from Grant manager. Leon Timmermans Embedding perl into C++ applications Leon report: I've ported it to 5.10. I haven't really tested it beyond compiling, but I don't expect difficulties there. I've worked on the exportation code. Exporting variables is now supported. I want to add member variables too, but I'm not sure

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  • Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up Sat, 13-Sep-2008 by Alberto Simões

    Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up written by Eric Wilhelm: Google's Summer of Code 2008 is wrapping up now and I'm very pleased with how well The Perl Foundation's students and mentors have done. The five projects which survived the halfway point have all finished with great results. Many thanks to all of the mentors and students as well as everyone in the community who helped or supported the

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  • Get your PPW talk proposals in by 12 September 2008 Thu, 11-Sep-2008 by Richard Dice

    Our colleagues, the organizers of the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, asked us to help get the word out about PPW and to remind people that they are currently accepting talk proposals, up until September 12. You can get more details on their web site at "http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/":http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/ This will be the third year of the event. The past 2 years it has shown itself to be an exceptional and fun Perl gathering.

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  • Smolder Grant Final Report Tue, 09-Sep-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    This is the final report for the Smolder grant, by Michael Peters: Here are the original deliverables from my grant proposal: Remove custom XML format in favor of using plain TAP and TAPx::Parser. Extend Smolder to handle small CPAN style modules more easily and automatically. Setup a Smolder server for the CGI::Application community to serve as a testing ground and public display for their 110+ CPAN modules. Add per-project and

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  • Mango Grant Closed Sat, 06-Sep-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    Christopher Laco on Mango Grant: It has been over two years since I received a grant from the TPF to start work on Mango. What started as a fast paced 3 month project has turned into a 2 year project that has come to crawl. At this point in time, the TPF and I agree that it is best to label this project as 'done as-is' so the grant manager

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  • Running Grants (2008-III) Fri, 05-Sep-2008 by Alberto Simões
    in: Grants

    This is the third biweekly report. These are the news on currently running grants: Mango Christopher Laco This grant will be closed in the next few days, and a report published here. Porting PyYAML to Perl Ingy döt Net Ingy gave some updates on his grant. YAML::XS is completed, and a pure Perl implementation is being started. A new deadline was defined: Christmas 2008. Improving Smolder Michael Peters As said

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